John Player & Sons (Firm)

Date: 1915

By: John Player & Sons (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-Cards-Cigarette-1915-01

Description: Series of polar exploration cards: 1. Andree's polar balloon 2. Dr Fridtjof Nansen, GCVO, FRGS 3. How icebergs are formed 4. The Aurora Borealis 5. Perry and Hoppner's Arctic expedition 6. Eskimo with dog sledge 7. Ross and Parry's expedition 1818 8. Commander James Ross at the North Magnetic Pole 1831 9. Peary's Arctic expedition 1898-1902 10. Eskimo with their toupiks or summer tents 11. Eskimo hunting seal in a kayak 12. Relics of the Franklin expedition 13. The 'Nimrod' picking up the Northern party 14. A remarkable fumarole in the old crater of Mount Erebus 15. Start of the Western party from Cape Royds 16. The Northern party at the South Magnetic Pole 17. The Ferrar Glacier 18. The Aurora Australis 19. The discovery of Greenland 20. Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition 1819-22 21. Cabot's voyage in search of a North-West passage, 1497 22. Henry Hudson cast adrift 23. An extract from Ernest Shackleton's diary, Jan 4th 1909 24. Lieut Sir E H Shackleton, CVO 25. The British Antarctic expedition 1910 Titles of individual cards are from the verso. The titles on the recto (image itself) differ. Quantity: 25 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs on cards, 36 x 69 mm. Provenance: Purchased from J & S L Bonham, United Kingdom, in 2015.

Date: 1895 - 1955

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-CARDS-Cigarette-02

Description: Includes: 1. Hill's Cigarettes. No. 1. New Zealand Mounted Rifles. [ca 1900] 2. Cohen, Weenen & Co., London. NZ Mounted Rifles. [ca 1900] 3. I Rutter & Co's Mitcham Cigarettes. New Zealand [shows mounted soldier and initial design of United Tribes of NZ flag]. [ca 1900] 4. Pascalls Court Chocolates. Initial design of United Tribes of NZ flag]. [ca 1900] 5. Cope's Cigarettes. New Zealand [shows Maori woman against initial design of United Tribes of NZ flag]. [ca 1900] 6. Cope's cigarettes. The world's police: 4. Inspector, New Zealand [1890s?] 7. W D & H O Wills Cigarettes. New Zealand Ensign [red code signals flag ca 1899?] 8. John Player & Sons. No. 27: Flag; New Zealand emblem, British colony [ca 1900?] 9. Havelock Tobacco. Havelock Cigarettes. No 27: New Zealand [Maori man, clock and royal seal. Ca 1905] 10. John Player and Sons. National flags and arms. 31. New Zealand [after 1911] 11. John Player & Sons. Players Cigarettes. Army Corps & divisional signs 1914-1918. 2nd series no. 124. New Zealand Division: Silver fern [1920s?] 12. W D & H O Wills. Wills Cigarettes. Military motors, no. 25: Motor ambulance, New Zealand [1920s?] 13. John Player & Sons. Player's Cigarettes. Military uniforms of the British Empire overseas. No. 11: New Zealand Mounted Rifles [1930s] 14. Ogden's Cigarettes. Series of 50 flags and funnels of leading steamship line. No. 21: Shaw Savill and Albion Line. House flag and funnel [1930s?] 15. Ogden's Cigarettes. Series of 50 flags and funnels of leading steamship lines. No.6. New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd. House flag & funnel [1930s?] 16. Ogden's Cigarettes. Children of all nations. No. 50: New Zealand [1930s?] 17. Kensitas Cigarettes. British Empire; blue ensign of New Zealand. Printed in USA [Print on silk. Pre 1949] 18. Nieuw-Zeeland. Profile portrait of a young blond girl, on silk. 1930-1940s?] 19. Flags of the World. No. 68. New Zealand [ca 1955] Includes advertisement for Havelock Tobacco, manufactured in Richmond, Virginia. Quantity: 19 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs and offset prints, on cards, sizes varying around 70 x 40 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2014.

Date: 1910-1969

Reference: Eph-F-THEATRE-1900s-1

Description: Includes: Player's Navy Cut cigarettes "Medium" cigarette packet 1920-40s Player's Navy Cut cigarettes "Medium" cigarette packet 1920-40s The Three Castles cigarette yellow packet 1910-30s The Three Castles cigarette yellow packet 1910-30s National Tobacco Company Ltd, Napier. Yellow Riverhead Gold packet, 2 oz net [1930-1940s?] Fuller's Vaudeville. Time now for your Kensitas, as good as really good cigarettes can be [1920-1930s?]. Small card Fuller-Brennan Vaudeville. RESERVED. Card [1910s?] Heards Ltd., Auckland. Heards chocolate raisins; milk chocolate raisins, 4 1/2 ozs [Pink packet. 1950-1960s] Quantity: 8 Other printed ephemera item(s).

Date: 1900-1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to tobacco and the tobacco industry]

Reference: Eph-A-TOBACCO-1900/1939

Description: Includes: 1900s: Player's Navy Cut cigarettes "Medium". 10 cigarettes, manufactured by Imperial Tobacco Co. of New Zealand Ltd, Wellington [Packet] W D & H O Wills. Mild "Capstan" registered Navy Cut cigarettes. Manufactured by W D & H O Wills (New Zealand) Ltd. Wellington [Packet] 1928: The Wheatley lightning fastener tobacco pouch, showing a choice of these pouches in various leathers designed to suit all tastes. Richard Wheatley and Son, 90/96 Constitution Hill, Birmingham, England [1928]. Booklet 1934: [National Tobacco Company, Napier]. Price list of tobacco and cigarettes. 1st November 1934 (with stuck in sheet for prices from 1 June 1936) 1936: Fairbairn Wright & Co. Wholesale [rice list, cigarettes and tobaccos, 1 September 1936. W D & H O Wills / Imperial Tobacco Company / Dominion Tobacco Co. Wholesale price list: Cigarettes & tobaccos. 1 September 1936 W D & H O Wills. Wholesale price list: Cigars. 1 September 1936 1937: W D & H O Wills (New Zealand) Ltd :Stocks at your door; the modern method of advertising. Postcard 1939: Tobacco Trade Council. List no. 5. Fixed retail prices of cigarettes and tobacco to take effect from 11 December 1939. With folded "Amendment no. 2" for the same date, folded and slipped inside Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: [1960s]

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

Reference: Eph-D-MARCH-APRIL-2022/1

Description: Comprises posters advertising musical, cultural, and sporting competitions, dated to the 1960s. All events sponsored by cigarette companies W.D. & H.O. Wills or John Player & Sons. Made up of seven posters and one paper banner with colour illustrations: - '1964 Rugby Tours and Special Matches poster'. Touring teams mentioned include New Zealand Colts, New Zealand Maoris [Māori All Blacks], and Australia. Also features tour itinerary down right-hand side of the poster and Player's Gold Leaf cigarette branding. Offset lithographic print, approximately 634mm x 450mm. - 'Wills Show Jumping Circuit Prize Meeting', no date, possibly 1964. Features branding for Gold Leaf cigarettes. Screenprint poster, 560 x 450mm. - 'A qualifying meeting for the Wills Individual Meeting & Circuit Aggregate Points Prizes', 'The Showgrounds, Gisborne 23, 24 and 25 January, 1964'. Features branding for Gold Leaf cigarettes. Screenprint poster with overlay, 585mm x 460mm. - 'Wills Giant Slalom Race, for the Inter-Club Challenge Trophy', Ruapehu, Broken River Basin, Coronet Peak 18-28 July. 'Finals Ruapehu 21-25 September'. No year, probably 1964. Features branding for Gold Leaf cigarettes. Screenprint poster, 550mm x 420mm. - 'Wills National Traditional Maori Concert Party Championships, Tauranga Memorial Hall, Saturday May 2nd'. No year, possibly 1964 or 1965. Features branding for 3 Castles King-Size Virginias. Screenprint poster 553 x 443mm. - 'Dominion Pipe Band Championships, Carisbrook, Dunedin, 13th-15th March', no date, possibly 1964. Features branding for W.D. & H.O. Wills manufacturers of 3 Castles King-Size Virginias. Screenprint poster, 585mm x 460 mm. - 'Dominion Pipe Band Championships, Carisbrook, Dunedin, 13th-15th March'. Features branding for '3 Castles King-Size Virginias'. Screenprint banner, 106mm x 450mm. - 'Player's National Darts Championships, singles and pairs. Horticultural Hall, Lower Hutt, 3rd October 1964'. Features branding for Player's Navy Cut and Gold Leaf cigarettes. Screenprint poster, 585 x 435mm. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s) contains eight pieces. Provenance: Posters and banner recieved by Art + Object together, auctioned in separate lots; 110, 112, 114, 115, 116, and 123.

Date: 1920 - 1935

By: John Player & Sons (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-CARDS-Player-Ships

Description: Includes cards showing the flags and cap badges, and giving a short company history, for the following shipping companies (set is incomplete; includes approximately half the set of 50 cards) 3. Mercantile Marine 9. Bibby Steamship Company Ltd 11. Cunard Steamship Co Ltd 13. Elder Dempster & Co Ltd 15. Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd 17. Lamport & Holt Line 18. Leyland Line 20. Ocean Steampship Co Ltd 21. Orient Steam Navigation Co Ltd 23. Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd 24. Southern Railway Co Ltd 25. Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd 26. Anchor Line Ltd 27. [Asiatic?] Steam Navigation Co Ltd 28. Booth Steam Ship Co Ltd 29. British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd 30. Brocklebank Line 32. City Line Ltd 34. H.M.'s Coastguard Service 35. Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd 36. Ellerman's Wilson Line Ltd 37. Furness Line 38. Glen Line Ltd 49. Thames Nautical Training Coll, HMS "Worcester" 50. Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand Ltd Quantity: 25 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cigarette cards. Physical Description: Offset lithographs on cards, 38 x 70 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1939

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973; W D & H O Wills Ltd; John Player & Sons (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-CARDS-Cigarette-01

Description: Collection in Players Navy Cut tin. Includes cards by the following publishers: W D and HO Wills: New Zealand footballers ca 1927: 7, 10, 12, 16, 17, 20, 23, 25, 27-30, 33-35, 38-40, 42, 45-47, 50. Units of the British Army and RAF 1920s?: 16, 27 English cricketers: 1 British rugby players 1920s: 4,44 John Player & Sons: Leaders of men: Charles Darwin, Sebastien Cabot Dogs: 9, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25 Lambert & Butler: Popular film stars: 23 Who's who in sport (1926): Hudderfield Town F.C, Jack Hobbs Godfrey Phillips Ltd: Famous minors: Elizabeth of Hungary, Henry Tudor Carreras: Views of the World: 2, 7, 11, 21, 24 Views of London: 6 Major Drapkin & Co Ltd: Around the Mediterranean, no 45 Gallaher Ltd: Cinema stars: 19, 26, 39, 40, 87 Simonets Ltd: Famous actors and actresses: 12, 13 Nicholas Sarony: Cinema studies, 11, 17 Spinet House: Cinema celebrities: Mary Pickford, Marjorie Hume Publisher unknown: Cinema stars: 2, 4, 7, 12, 13, 23, 28, 33, 41, 49 Quantity: 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photographs and photolithographs on cards, each 68 x 37 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to smoking, cigarettes, smokefree campaigns]

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SMOKING-1939-01

Description: Front shows a photograph of a woman in profile holding a cigarette in her hand. The verso advertises Whitcombe's New-Book Club. Date estimated from the imprint at lower edge. Whitcombe's New-Book Club had been established in 1917; see New Zealand herald, 7 November 1917, page 8. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on both sides of bookmark. Physical Description: Offset prints on both sides of bookmark, 200 x 68 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Fiona Gray, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera relating to birds, both wild and domestic, bird shows, and the protection of bird life. 1900-1959]

By: John Player & Sons (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-BIRD-1929-01

Description: Cigarette card shows a close up illustration of both male and female huia beaks. Dated from similar cards for sale on internet sources, February 2014. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on cigarette card, 37 x 70 mm.

Date: 1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to smoking, cigarettes, smokefree campaigns]

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SMOKING-1939-02

Description: Front shows a half-length photographic portrait of a woman holding a cigarette in her hand. The verso advertises the range of books available at Whitcombe & Tombs. Date estimated from the imprint at lower edge. Whitcombe's New-Book Club had been established in 1917; see New Zealand herald, 7 November 1917, page 8. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on both sides of bookmark. Physical Description: Offset prints on both sides of bookmark, 200 x 68 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1950

By: John Player & Sons (Firm); Chandler & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-SMOKING-1930s-01

Description: Poster advertising a brand of cigarette shows a packet of ten Medium navy-cut cigarettes, with the logo of a sailor wearing a cap with the ship name "Hero" on it. The sailor appears framed by a life-belt with the words "Player's navy cut" on it. Other Titles - Company Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 760 x 510 mm.